Pakistani forces killed 55 Taliban in the northwestern valley of Swat on Friday, the army said, and lifted a curfew to allow thousands of civilians to flee before troops assail the Taliban-held main ...

Pakistan, Swat Valley, Bara Bandai, November 2010. Lashkar members making preparations for pehra (night patrol) at the hujra of tribal elder Ahmed Khan, whose portrait is on the wall. In Pashtun ...

This time the line of vehicles snaking for miles down the sweltering valley — small cars packed with families and large trucks heaving with livestock and furniture — are not fleeing; the refugees from ...

Even as hundreds of thousands of people stream back to the Swat Valley after months of fighting, one important group is conspicuously absent: the wealthy landowners who fled the Taliban in fear and ...

A Pakistani Army tank is heavily damaged and abandoned during fighting in northwestern Pakistan. The Pakistani military continues to rely on helicopter gunships, attack aircraft, and artillery against ...

MARDAN, Pakistan, August 20 (UNHCR) - He misses his beautiful Swat valley, but 56-year-old Anwar* won't move back yet because he doesn't want to risk the safety of this family. "I don't know what is ...

Red agencies/ districts controlled by the Taliban; purple is de facto control; yellow is under threat. Tensions have arisen over the Swat peace agreement signed last month. The central government said ...

Feb 24 (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants announced on Tuesday an indefinite ceasefire in the Swat valley in the northwest of the country, a day after the army said it was ceasing operations in ...

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai visited her birthplace in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Saturday, bursting into tears as she entered her childhood home for the ...